in professional bureaucracy, the experts are concentrated in the operating core, where much of the power lies. but in adhocracy, they tend to be dispersed throughout the structure according to the decisions they make-in, the operating core, middle line, technostructure, strategic apex, and especially support staff. thus, whereas in each of the other configurations power is more or less concentrated, in adhocracy it is distributed unevenly. it flows,not according to authority or status but to wherever the experts needed for a particular decision happen to be found